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Rat-Brained Robots Take Their First Steps

Posted by timothy on from the aside-from-snow-crash-and-politics dept.

missb writes "Brain tissue cultured from rats has controlled a wheeled robot around a lab, according to New Scientist this week. Researchers in the UK have harnessed signals from thousands of disembodied rat neurons, and manipulated them to get a robot to respond to instructions. The team at the University of Reading in the UK hope their research will help provide treatments for diseases like Alzheimer's and epilepsy."

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  1. What the hell is going on with the markets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My stock portfolio is taking it up the ass

    1. Re:What the hell is going on with the markets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dude, where's my car?

    2. Re:What the hell is going on with the markets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's up the parent's stock portfolio's ass, you insensitive clod!

    3. Re:What the hell is going on with the markets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm wearing clod hoppers, you insensitive clod!

  2. Oh No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PITA is going to have a field day with this one.